Charles Lepple wrote:
For instance, if I create a .pcap file with "text2pcap -l 189 ..." on
a big-endian machine, then the .pcap file seems not to have the
byte-swapped flag set.
There's no byte-swapped flag in a libpcap file. There's only a magic
number, which is written out in host byte order on the machine on which
the file is written; it either looks like 0xa1b2c3d4 if the file is
being read on a machine with the same byte order, or like 0xd4c3b2a1 on
a machine with the opposite byte-order.
If you create a .pcap file with text2pcap, the magic number will be
written in the byte order of your machine, so it won't appear to be
byte-swapped.
